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<p>This section of the Tomcat documentation attempts to explain
the architecture and design of the Tomcat server.  It includes significant
contributions from several tomcat developers:
</p>
<ul>
<li>Yoav Shapira
    (<a href="mailto:yoavs@apache.org">yoavs@apache.org</a>)</li>
<li>Jeanfrancois Arcand
    (<a href="mailto:jfarcand@apache.org">jfarcand@apache.org</a>)</li>
<li>Filip Hanik
    (<a href="mailto:fhanik@apache.org">fhanik@apache.org</a>)</li>
</ul>

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<p>The information presented is divided into the following sections:</p>
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<li><a href="overview.html"><strong>Overview</strong></a> -
    An overview of the Tomcat server architecture with key terms
    and concepts.</li>
<li><a href="startup.html"><strong>Server Startup</strong></a> -
    A detailed description, with sequence diagrams, of how the Tomcat
    server starts up.</li>
<li><a href="requestProcess.html"><strong>Request Process Flow</strong></a> -
    A detailed description of how Tomcat handles a request.</li>
</ul>

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